Python OSS Engineer

About Lang Chain

Lang Chain was founded in early 2023 to help developers build context-aware reasoning applications. Lang Chain, open source software, is a framework that gives developers the building blocks to create production-ready applications with LLMs. Lang Smith is our commercial, all-in-one SaaS platform that enables the end-to-end, development workflow for building LLM-powered apps. Lang Smith is now trusted by the best teams building with LLMs, at companies such as Airbnb, Byte Dance, Klarna, Google, Meta, Home Depot, and our 80+ paying enterprise customers.

Backed by some of the best venture capitalists, Benchmark and Sequoia, we have 10x’d our revenue last year and have big ambitions and are set up to build an enduring business.

About the role

In person 5 days/week in San Francisco, CA or Boston, MA (SF preferred)

We’re looking to add a core maintainer to the Lang Chain team. This person would be responsible for maintaining and improving the Lang Chain Python package.

• Improving the core abstractions and runtime of the langchain and langgraph packages

• Improving documentation

• Answering user questions and resolving issues

• Use langchain to build example applications

How to be successful in this role

• 5+ years of software engineering or applied machine learning background

• Have strong written and oral communication skills, with the ability to explain technical concepts clearly and concisely to both technical and non-technical stakeholders

• Can thrive in a fast-moving environment. Views unstructured environments as an opportunity to figure out the most impactful work and define the future success of the company

• Are ownership-minded. You excel at managing your work efficiently and effectively without the need for close supervision

Compensation & Benefits

• Competitive salary and equity stake for role and stage of company. Commensurate with experience.

• Annual salary range: $115,000-$155,000 USD, $145,000-$195,000 USD for Senior Engineer candidates